[Openchrome-users] Gentoo ebuild anyone?

[Robin Gilks]

> Hi!
>
> On 5/9/06, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> Has anyone got a Gentoo ebuild that takes the 6.9.0 monolithic build
>> from
>> Xorg, patches in the latest stable Openchrome and then builds it?
>>
>> If not, what is the best way of patching the Xorg tree at build time so
>> as
>> to be able to maintain a 'bleeding edge' Xorg within the portage process
>> (I'm getting fed up with patching out 6.8.2 after I've done a world
>> update!!!)
>>
>> Failing that, has anyone put a 7.0.0 Xorg modular build onto an Epia
>> card
>> using Gentoo - the last time I checked the Gentoo Howto it looked like a
>> 6
>> month job just emerging all the ancillary packages!!
>>
> It's not that bad. I used the howto from
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
>
> and it worked pretty well. By now you can skip unmasking the packages
> because they aren't hard masked anymore. Unfortunately the last via
> driver (I think it was version 0.1.33) did not support hw mpeg2 for
> cn400 so I had to build the driver from openchrome svn. The current
> driver (0.21) should already be able to support hw mpeg2 but I am too
> lazy to perform the upgrade. I am running gentoo on an Epia SP8000 as
> a pvr and (except for hw mepg4) all features are working nicely.
>
> Regards,
> Kafu
>

Well, I gave it a go and as you say its not that bad! Certainly having it
all not hard-masked has made it much easier than when I last looked.

It all appears to work but I'm not sure how up-to-date the versions of the
various bits are. All I can find is via_drv = 0.1.33 and that (with a cpu
idle of 80% playing a DVD) appears to have all the XvMC go faster
stripes...

What do I gain by going for the latest SVN?

-- 
Robin Gilks